Hi! Back in the late 90's, I was teaching at Greensville Correctional Center in Virginia, when the idea for Future Perfect first came to me. Watching the inmates file into my classroom, I wondered how I would react if I suddenly saw someone I knew among them. Suppose it were someone I had once loved? This thought led me to create Carrie Melton, a woman in crisis, who does discover someone familiar among her students. But he is not the person she thinks he is. Future Perfect is an inspirational romance with a decidedy untraditional cast of characters, caught in a decidedly unromantic situation. An emotional cripple who has lost her faith, Carrie firmly believes two things: With just a little more effort, she can bring order to her disordered life, and finding her long-lost first love can make all her dreams come true. When neither of these beliefs works out for her, Carrie finds herself drowning in despair--until she reaches out to save someone else. Want a taste from the book? This is from the first chapter: Closing my
eyes, I let his memory emerge from the darkness: the
muscular arms, the broad shoulders, that shock of unruly
auburn hair that fell across one eye. Then there was his
smile--a glorious, shy, one-sided little grin--the smile
that stopped me dead in my tracks one shinning May
morning when I was seventeen and had no idea I was about
to be ambushed by love. In that moment, and for every
moment of the next six months, I knew what it was to
experience pure, unadulterated joy. Each morning I awoke
in a state of delighted distraction, knowing without the
shadow of a doubt that I was the luckiest girl ever to
have lived. Each night I put my head on my pillow, secure
in the knowledge that Mac McKeithan's would love me
forever, just as I would love him. I was wrong, of course. |
